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What is the adjective for fishability?

What's the adjective for fishability? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fish and fishify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fishy

Of, from, or similar to fish.
Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
(LGBT slang) Of drag queens: appearing feminine.
Synonyms:

fishlike, piscine, piscatorial, piscatory, fishly, ichthyic, of fish, suspicious, dubious, shady, shifty, dodgy, suspect, murky, dark, shonky, disreputable, crooked, underhand, devious, not kosher, not quite right, questionable, doubtful, disputable, debatable, dubitable, queer, doubtable, equivocal, problematical, untrustworthy, problematic, shaky, funny, iffy, uncertain, unreliable, odd, under suspicion, weak, unsound, unsupported, flimsy, unfounded, tenuous, unclear, unsure, undependable, irregular … more

Examples:

“With no fishy smell or taste, it comes in convenient daily-dose packets.”

“There's something fishy going on here. You can't pull any wool over my eyes.”

“The film is a stark picture of a not-so-distant imagined future. It is a rather fishy situation considering there is hardly any plankton left.”

fishable

(of a species of fish) Able to be fished legally
(of a lake, pond etc.) Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
Examples:

“Likewise, the 1972 Clean Water Act promised that all of our lakes, rivers, and streams would be fishable and swimmable.”

“Once the river levels were back to a fishable condition, coarse and game anglers experienced some good fishing.”

“After buying a licence you have hundreds of fishable streams creeks and rivers to fish.”

fishlike

Having some characteristics of a fish.
Synonyms:

fishy, piscine, piscatorial, piscatory, fishly, ichthyic, of fish

Examples:

“Quick and nimble, fishlike, she glides over rocks, under overhangs and squeezes into narrow openings.”

“The cuticle may be left feeling extremely rough or in some cases the delicate cuticle fishlike scales may be permanently damaged or burned off.”

“Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.”

fishful

Abounding in fish.

fishless

Without fish.
Examples:

“In no time at all the firths were fishless deserts and the sea a cemetery without memorials.”

“Some of the more remote lakes and streams subsequently reverted to their fishless state.”

“If we kill the forests, poison the rivers and pollute the air then they inherit a treeless, fishless, asphyxiated world.”

fished

simple past tense and past participle of fish
Synonyms:

took, removed, extracted, pulled, drew, withdrew, extricated, retrieved, confiscated, picked, plucked, pried, wrested, dislodged, displaced, drew out, dug out, hauled out, physically removes, plucked out, pulled out, reaped, reapt, ripped, rooted out, took out, unearthed, uprooted, weeded out, wheedled out, took off, yanked, pluckt, extraught, withdrawn, drawn, taken out, drawn out, taken off, taken, prized, wrung, wrenched, forced, corkscrewed, wringed, wrang, jimmied, twisted, prised … more

fishing

present participle of fish
Synonyms:

fishified

simple past tense and past participle of fishify

fishifying

present participle of fishify

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